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jkhoo:
Hey y'all! I just wanted to know your methods and exam techniques for Maths, especially Extension 2. I find that I get really tired and stressed around 2 hours in and my brain just turns to mush ... any help is appreciated! :)

birdwing341:

--- Quote from: jkhoo on September 24, 2016, 10:30:47 pm ---Hey y'all! I just wanted to know your methods and exam techniques for Maths, especially Extension 2. I find that I get really tired and stressed around 2 hours in and my brain just turns to mush ... any help is appreciated! :)

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Tbh seeing the school name Ruse makes me wary of giving advice considering you're probably better than me. And your tests are infinitely harder, so I fully understand that your head turns to mush. Hopefully for the actual HSC it'll be much easier. But that said, my exam technique is quite simple and works quite well.

Basically; work through the paper in reading time, don't attempt multiple choice. Look for harder questions you haven't seen before, and kind of think about the methods you might use to address these questions. I know that two individuals who were extremely successful (state ranks) both used this method, and would often spend about 2-3 minutes writing down their notes on what techniques they would use so when they came back to that question, they would know how to do it. Aside from that, don't leave any question blank, if you come across a harder proof question, work at it backwards (so you know what to get to) and then rewrite it nicely.

Other than that work hard and work well :)

RuiAce:

--- Quote from: jkhoo on September 24, 2016, 10:30:47 pm ---Hey y'all! I just wanted to know your methods and exam techniques for Maths, especially Extension 2. I find that I get really tired and stressed around 2 hours in and my brain just turns to mush ... any help is appreciated! :)

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Well then the question becomes what do your eyes tell you around 2 hours in that causes you to stress?

Getting tired isn't abnormal, but at the end of the day all I see in front of me are questions. If you're going to stress then the first thing you need to do is breathe and calm back down. That's not just for MX2; that's for every course (just that it may be more likely for MX2 due to the intensity of the exam). Because if you're going to keep stressing then you don't get anywhere.

Hence the question becomes what do you stress over. Is it something about Q16 of the paper that's stressing you, or is it because you begin to worry about silly mistakes? Or could it be something else?


--- Quote from: birdwing341 on September 24, 2016, 10:43:43 pm ---Tbh seeing the school name Ruse makes me wary of giving advice considering you're probably better than me.

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James Ruse is a magnificent school and I trust he is an excellent student. But that doesn't necessarily mean you should compare yourself like that either. And actually I don't feel their papers are the hardest either - Sydney Grammar papers are.

birdwing341:

--- Quote from: RuiAce on September 24, 2016, 10:47:31 pm ---Well then the question becomes what do your eyes tell you around 2 hours in that causes you to stress?

Getting tired isn't abnormal, but at the end of the day all I see in front of me are questions. If you're going to stress then the first thing you need to do is breathe and calm back down. That's not just for MX2; that's for every course (just that it may be more likely for MX2 due to the intensity of the exam). Because if you're going to keep stressing then you don't get anywhere.

Hence the question becomes what do you stress over. Is it something about Q16 of the paper that's stressing you, or is it because you begin to worry about silly mistakes? Or could it be something else?
James Ruse is a magnificent school and I trust he is an excellent student. But that doesn't necessarily mean you should compare yourself like that either. And actually I don't feel their papers are the hardest either - Sydney Grammar papers are.

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Who said it was a he :P

RuiAce:

--- Quote from: birdwing341 on September 24, 2016, 11:03:13 pm ---Who said it was a he :P

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"She" works if applicable

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